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UNITED STATES Patented october 2o, 190e. "f

PATENT OFFICE.

PAUL PHILIA ICAVILLE FYFE, OF CONCORD, NORTH CAROLINA, 'ASSIGNOR .OF ONE-THIRD TO STANDARD RIGHT COMPANY, OFCHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA.

STATION-INDICATOR'.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 741,652, dated October 20, 1903.

Application filed January 30, 1903. Serial No. 14Ll42. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, PAUL PHILIA IoAvILLE FYFE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Concord, in the county of Cabarrus and State of North Carolina, have invented a new and Improved, Station-Indicator, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. n

My invention relates to an improvement in station-indicators, and has for its object to provide a means for displaying in street or railroad cars the names ofthe streets or stations, with or without advertising matter, upon tapes carried by spring-controlled reels, and, further, to provide means for automatically causing one tape to be rolled up upon its reel simultaneously with the next tape being unwound to expose the data thereon and held in display position until purposely released. l

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will behereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.y

Figure 1 is a central side elevation of a portion of a car, illustrating the application of Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken practically on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 8 is a plan View of the device, partly in section, on the line 3 3 in Fig. 4, parts being omitted. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the device; and Fig. 5 is a section taken practically on the line 5 5 of Fig. 4, showing a masterv wheel in side elevation.

' B a miter-gear 10 is secured, which meshes with a similar gear l1, secured on a shaft 12,

located beneath' the car, which shaft is driven in any suitable or approved manner, eitherl from the wheels of a truck of the car or byv connection with the axle of the wheels.

' At the upper end of the drive-shaft B, also within the car and near the clear story of the ing above the other, and these shafts extend from the mutilated wheel C to and through the ends of the car-body and over the platforms, the shafts being journaled at their inner ends in suitable bearings 16 and at their outer ends in bearings secured to or formed, preferably, upon the standards 16, supporting the hoods of the car. `The upper shaft 14 is provided with a spiral groove 17, as is shown in Fig. 4, and the lower shaft 15, as is shown in Fig. `3, is provided with a longitudinal groove 15a.

At the inner end of each spirally-grooved shaft 14 a wheel 18 is secured, havingteeth 19, adapted to mesh with the upper toothed sectors on the said mutilated gear-wheel C, and at each end of each lower shaft 15 a corresponding wheel 20 is attached, having teeth 21,- adapted to mesh with the lower sectors of teeth on the mutilated gear-wheel C, as is illustrated in Fig. 4.

A track or rail 22 `is supported at the upper portion of the car above each of theupper shafts 14, as is also shown in Fig. 4, and the upper portion 23 of a downwardly-extending carriage D is adapted to travelr freely .upon each rail or track 2.2.` Each carriage D isprovided with a central section 24, apertured to receive an upper spirally-grooved shaft 14, andv each central section 24 of the carriage is provided with an inner projection 25, adapted to enter the spiral groove 17 of the shaft 14, on which the carriage travels. -The lower end 26 'of each carriage D is bifur- "cated, and between the members of the bi- '.furcated end of vthe carriage amaster-wheel 27 is located. Each master-wheel is mounted upon a lower shaft 15, and each master-wheel 27, as is shown in Fig. 5, is provided with a recess 28 in its periphery and with a key 2,8,

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which enters the groove 15 in the shaft upon which the said master wheel is mounted. The master-wheel is a two-faced bevel-wheel, as is clearly shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

Brackets 40 are located at the side of the car A opposite the shafts 14 and 15, and these brackets, as is illustrated in Fig. 2, each usually consists of connected upright members a and horizontal members a', which extend inwardly from the top and bottom portions of the vertical or upright members a. The' spindles or reels 29 are journaled in the horizontal members ct of the bracket 40, and tapes 30 are secured to said reels, being adapted to lbe normally wound thereon, and the tapes wires 32 are attached tothe ends of the tapesV 30, and these cords or wires 32 are attached to reels 33, carried by spindles 34, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, which spindles are mounted in the horizontal members of brackets 35, eX- tending below the lower shafts 15, and the spindle 34 for each reel 33 is provided at its upper end with a miter or bevel gear 36, as is shown in Figs. 3 and 4. The recesses 28 in the peripheral portions of the masterwheels 27 are of sulicient size and of such shape that the master-wheels may pass by the said pinions 36 when the recesses in the master-wheels are brought in registry with said pinions; but the pinions 36 are placed so close together that when the master wheel is brought between two adjacent pinions the teeth of the said wheel will engage with both of said pinions, as is clearly shown in Fig. 4.

" Under this construction it will be observed that when the shaft 14 is turned the carriage D on that shaft will be made to travel lengthwise of the shaft, and as at such time the recess 28 in the master-wheel of the carriage is in registry with the pinions 36 below the carriage the master-wheel can readily pass from one pinion to the other. When the masterfwheel has assumed a position between adjacent pinions 36, a lower sector of the mutilated gear C will engage with the teeth of the wheel 2O on the shaft 15 and cause the said shaft to revolve, and thus turn the masterwheel, which in turning .will cause one pinion with which it engages to be rotated in such a direction as to release the tape drawn out from its reel and permit the spring 31 of such reel to wind the tape thereon, and the master-wheel will at the same time turn the other pinion in such direction as to cause the tape ou the next reel or drum to be unwound therefrom and the matter thereon exposed, the slack of the wire or cord 32 being taken up by the reel with which the pinion is connected.

It will be understood that spools may be employed instead of reels, if desired.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a station-indicator, opposing reels arranged in opposite series, pivotal supports for the reels, a exible display connection between corresponding reels in the series, a single master-wheel adapted to actuate the reels and travel from one reel of a series to another, and devices for imparting traveling and rotary motion to the master-wheel.

2. In a station-indicator, reels arranged in opposingseries,pivotal supports for the reels, tension devices for the reels of one series, serving to turn them in winding direction, flexible display connections between opposing reels of the series, driving devices for the reels opposite those tension-controlled, a driver common to all of the driving devices on the reels and adapted for movement along the line of such driving devices connected with the reels and for simultaneous engagement with two adjacent driving devices carried by the reels, to simultaneously turn one reel in one direction and the other reel in an opposite direction, and means, substantially as described, for imparting traverse and rotary motion to the said driver, as set forth.

3. In a station-indicator, opposing sets of reels, pivotal supports therefor, tension devices for one set of reels, exible display connections between opposing reels, pinions connected with the opposite sets of reels, a double-faced toothed master-wheel adapted for simultaneous engagement with adjacent pin- A ions, and devices for moving the master wheel along the line of pinions and for rotating the master-Wheel, as described.

4. In a station-indicator, supports adapted for attachment to opposite sides of a cal-,spools or reels journaled in one support, opposing spools or reels j ou rnaled in the other support, driving devices connected with the latter spools or reels, a flexible display connection between opposing spools or reels, arranged for simultaneous engagement with adjacent driving devices for the spools or reels, and mechanism, substantially as described, for moving a master-wheel over the driving de vices and imparting rotary movement to the master-wheel.

5. In a station-indicator, the combination with opposing reels or spools, pivotal supports therefor, tension devices for one set of reels or spools, exible display connections between opposing reels or spools, and pinions connected with one set of reels or spools, of a spirally-grooved shaft, a second shaft, a carriage mounted to slide upon both shafts, projections from the carriage entering the groove IIO of the first-named shaft, a double-faced In testimonywhereof I have signed my toothed master-wheel adapted to engage with name to this specification in the presence-0f adjacent pinions, which master wheel is two subscribing witnesses.

guided bythe carriage and is adapted to slide PAUL PHILIA ICAVILLE .FYFE. 5 upon and turn with the second shaft, and an Witnesses:

alternating driving mechanism for the two THOMAS S. SHINN,

shafts, substantially as set forth. u l D. C. DAYWALT. 

